Web Engineering

Description

The World Wide Web has a massive and permanent influence on our lives. Economy, industry, education, healthcare, public administration, entertainment – there is hardly any part of our daily lives which has not been pervaded by the Internet. Accordingly, modern Web applications are fully-fledged, complex software systems, and in order to be successful their development must be thorough and systematic.

  
This book presents a new discipline called Web Engineering taking a rigorous interdisciplinary approach to the development of Web applications, covering Web development concepts, methods, tools and techniques. It highlights the need to examine and re-use the body of knowledge found within software engineering and demonstrates how to use that knowledge within the Web environment, putting emphasize on current practices, experiences and pitfalls.

  
The book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students on Web-focused or Software Engineering courses, as well as Web software developers, Web designers and project managers.

CONTENTS:

Preface.

  Foreword.

  1. An Introduction to Web Engineering (Gerti Kappel, Birgit Pröll, Siegfried Reich, Werner Retschitzegger).

  2. Requirements Engineering for Web Applications (Paul Grünbacher).

  3. Modeling Web Applications (Wieland Schwinger, Nora Koch).

  4. Web Application Architectures (Christian Eichinger).

  5. Technology-aware Web Application Design (Gerhard Austaller, Andreas Hartl, Markus Lauff, Fernando Lyardet, Max Mühlhäuser).

  6. Technologies for Web Applications (Martin Nussbaumer, Martin Gaedke).

  7. Testing Web Applications (Christoph Steindl, Rudolf Ramler, Josef Altmann).

  8. Operation and Maintenance of Web Applications (Arno Ebner, Birgit Pröll, Hannes Werthner).

  9. Web Project Management (Herwig Mayr).

  10. The Web Application Development Process (Gregor Engels, Marc Lohmann, Annika Wagner).

  11. Usability of Web Applications (Martin Hitz, Gerhard Leitner, Rudolf Melcher).

  12. Performance of Web Applications (Gabriele Kotsis).

  13. Security for Web Applications (Martin Wimmer, Alfons Kemper, Stefan Seltzsam).

  14. The Semantic Web—The Network of Meanings in the Network of Documents (Wernher Behrendt, Nitin Arora).

  Glossary.

  Author Biographies.

  Bibliography.

  Credits.

  Index.